The world’s fastest electric vehicle is now achieving acceleration that could have Formula 1 almost feeling redundant. That’s because it reached 62.15 mph (100 kph) in 0.965 seconds over 40.3 feet (12.3 meters) on September 1, 2023. And a bunch of university students from ETH Zurich and Lucerne University, Switzerland are not about to retire yet. We investigate and report what we found.
AMZ Racing Incubates World’s Fastest Electric Vehicle
The vehicle is tagged Mythen. While the awesome Grosser Mythen mountain in the Swiss Alps, where students hike in summer also calls for endurance. Whatever the case, the project rolls out under the watchful eye of AMZ Racing, which is a division of Academic Motorsports Club Zurich.
The AMZ goal is to push the limits of electric vehicle performance, and inspire young minds to take on challenges in engineering and business. The student-founded organization has been true to its goal, producing a prototype to compete in Formula Student competitions since 2006. We can’t hold back any longer. Watch the world’s fastest electric vehicle whoosh away now.
More Technical Info About Superstar Mythen Car
Interesting Engineering explains how students from ETH Zurich, and the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts built Mythen. “Working on the project in addition to my studies was very intense,” a student explains. “But even so, it was a lot of fun working with other students to continually produce new solutions and put into practice what we learned in class.”
What a unique experience it must have been, to merge theory and practice so closely while having fun too. The students personally developed all the electric car components. These included printed circuit boards, chassis (carbon and aluminum honeycomb), body parts, and battery, and they optimized them for their intended purpose.
The down-sized battery and wheel motors delivered 240 kilowatts, or approximately 326 horsepower. Not bad, to say the least, for a 309 pound (140 kilogram) car. However, this would not have kept the fastest electric vehicle safely on the ground were it not for another innovation. The students added a suction-based “vacuum cleaner”, to maintain strong traction from the beginning, and keep the wheels firmly on the ground.
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